Travel health: ready for take-off

Turning informal advice into a structured consultation service: pharmacy-based travel health services take flight.

Practice advice: becoming a general practice pharmacist

I’m interested in becoming a general practice pharmacist. What steps do I need to take to get there? From January 2020, incentives will be provided...

Practice tips to reduce risks of polypharmacy

In a world of information overload, how can pharmacists prevent patients from falling into a medicine-induced downward spiral? Every day Australians swallow millions of...

Maintaining standards

The PSA’s WA Pharmacist of the Year Richard Smirk serves as the Clinical Advisor Pharmacy at the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra) in Perth.

Medication management in older Australians

A national pharmacy-led working group dedicated to improving the quality use of medicines for older Australians has issued 10 recommendations for better integrating healthcare...

Short of breath: respiratory conditions

With better treatments than ever, why don’t patients with respiratory conditions show better outcomes as well?